Edson Matsuo: Restless dreamer
Creative Activist of the P+D (People+Design) team for the Brazilian shoe manufacturer Grendene, he started working for the company in 1984, without ever having designed a shoe before. To date, Edson Matsuo has conceived over 2,000 models
Alain Mikli: Dressing the eyes to pay homage to the soul
In a past interview he declared that having a big nose drove him to find a way to hide it using glasses …
We ask the famous designer of ‘lunettes’ Alain Mikli if that is how it went.
“No, but it is true. I am lucky to have a nose, it is a family heirloom. But I do not try to hide it, on the contrary it is very useful and fulfills many functions”.